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J. W. ALLMON, JIH. WOMMAGK & W. M. HIGHPILL. I CIDER MILL.

No. 290,657. Patented Dec. .25, 1883.

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Unrran STATES J OHN WV. ALLMON AND JESSE H. WVOMMAOK, OF MARSHFIELD, ANDVILLIAM PATENT @rrrcn.

M. HIGHFILL, OF FAIR GROVE, MISSOURI.

CIDER-MILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,657; dated December25, 1883.

I Application filed January 4, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J. W. ALLMON and J. H. WOMMACK, of Marshfield, inthe county of Webster, and WILLIAM M. HIGHFILL, (all citizens of theUnited States,) residing at Fair Grove, in the county of Greene, all inthe State of Missouri, have-invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Cider-Mills; and we do declare the following'to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this speoification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a vertical sectionalview of our mill. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with hopper removed;and Fig. 3 is a side view of the hopper, upper portion broken away.

This invention has relation to cider-mills; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement of devices, as hereinafter set forth,and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the frame of themill, consisting of strong uprights and horizontal beams.

B indicates the inclined floor extending under the press-follower, thepress being of any ordinary construction, and not shown in the drawings.

In the upper part of the frame is formed, by means of cross-bars D andlongitudinal bars E, a seat for the hopper F, which is shouldered at a,so that its rabbeted lower end fits into said seat, and is securedtherein by a screw, 1). Notches c are made in the lower edgesof thelateral walls to admit the square shaft d of the cylinder, said shaftextending across the frame,

and having its journals seated in bearings e on the upper horizontalbars of the frame.

The cylinder G is of wood, studded with teeth g, having angular ends,which project sufficiently from its surface to have the requisitegrinding or scraping action upon the apples. The cylinder is providedwith metallic plates hat its ends, having square apertures 75, throughwhich the shaft passes, and which serve to secure the shaft and cylindertogether, preventing the latter from rotating on the former.

On the shaft (1 is secured a pinion, 7, which is turned by the largetoothed wheel H on the driving'shaft K, and on the outer end of thecylinder-shaft is keyed a fly-wheel, L.

The hopper-box F is formed with vertical parallel side walls, m, andwith end walls, which are partially vertical and parallel, as shown atn, and partially inclined or flaring, as indicated at p. The inclines pare above the vertical walls at, as shown in the drawings.

N designates a transverse ledge inside the hopper, overhanging the frontof the cylinder partially, and being located quite close to its studdedsurface, so that it acts as a clearer. Above the rear portion of thiscylinder is attached, to the rear incline of the hopper, the adjustableconcave S, which consists of a wedgeshaped piece or block, r, having aconcave face, 8, extending upward and over the cylinder, and downwardbetween the cylinder and the rear wall of the hopper. The concave face 8is made of metal, (preferably galvanized iron,) and is formed with anumber of small projections, it, over its surface, which are designed tocatch and hold the apples until they are entirely scraped away by thegrinding-cylinder G. By adjusting the concave upward, the distancebetween its face and the cylinder is increased, and the grinding will becoarse. Whenthe concave is lowered, its face is brought closer to thecylinder, and the grinding will be finer.

This grinding-mill is of simple construction, and its parts are easilyseparated for cleaning, WVh en the single screw 22 is withdrawn, thehopper can be removed, and the concave can be readily taken out oradjusted when its fastening-screw is turned outward.

The concave face can be removed when worn out at small expense.

The cylinder, being of wood, will not color the cider.

The gearing is arranged to give great speed to the cylinder, so that amachine of ordinary size will grind a bushel of apples per minute,

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, isr 1. The wedge-shaped adjustable concave S, having theremovable metallic face 8, provided .with the holding-proj ections t, incombination with the hopper of a cider-mill.

2. The combination, with the studded cylinder G and the hopper F, of theclearing-ledge N in the front of said hopper, and the adj ustablewedgeshaped metal facer holding con-

